Check-type validation for ndarray with Numpy 1.22.2

[nathanshammah]

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Issue Description

Check-type validation raises several errors in [type-arg] for missing ndarray. See discussion in #1118.

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[Misty-W]

Removed #1156 from 0.15.0 milestone - solve #1214 in 0.15.0 milestone instead (incremental fix).

[natestemen]

Upgrading numpy to a version greater than 1.21 will also fix the one security vulnerability we have open.